I got a called from this number, asking for a person that offices in a different state. He said (very hard to understand)...This is Tim Smith, calling from Jessica Lane's office. I asked office from what company and what this was about. He said this is Tim Smith calling from Jessica's office at the National Regulatory Services. I asked what he is calling about and I explained that Mr. J (not giving out his real name) offices in another state. He asked for that number. I explained I am not allowed to give out that information unless I get specifics on why the caller is calling. He refused, just repeated the name and company name. I said thank you and cut the call off.
I got a call today from this number whereby the person said, I would like to leave a voicemail for XX (my husband's name), can you connect me? She said her name was Jennifer, Assistant in the office. I said which office and she said, "Office of Coleman and Presley" ---very strange call indeed.
I got a call from this number asking for me by name. Said she was from Renee Garcia's Office; I do not know any one by this name. She kept asking me if I was Kim. She refused to tell me what this call was in reference to as this was my place of business. She would not tell me why she was calling. After she hung up I re-dialed the number and got "this is not a vaild number" auto response . This was very strange as she new my name.
A man with an accent, who alleged that his name was Ross, claimed to be phoning on behalf of his supervisor, who wanted to speak with one of our managers. I refused to transfer the call without knowing its purpose. He hesitated, then said, "Ma'am" and repeated his request. I did likewise. He sounded confused and read from the script again, as I did. Finally he offered to obtain that information and call back, which I know he won't. We receive calls like this all the time, and these "assistants" never get back to us.
a man's voice:
"hi could you connect me to Peter?"
"who is this?"
"is this Peter?"
"What company are you calling from?"
"Informatica"
"What does Informatica do?"
"it's just a company"
"Why are you calling here?"
"Is this Peter Brown from IBM?"
"No"
"Click"
Is someone recording voice patterns to be used for voice recognition, or spoof attacks?